According to The Sydney Morning Herald today someone is selling code for an undiscovered bug in Microsoft's Excel application.

The code is "0 day", zero day means information that is not publicly available and isused to describe security vulnerabilities exploits which areunknown to security professionals. According to the seller the bug was found 3 days ago and the seller has made Microsoft aware of the issue.

"So, since I was unable to find any use for this by-product ofMicrosoft developers, it is now available for you at the lowstarting price of $0.01 (a fair value estimation for any Microsoftproduct). A percentage of this sale will be contributed to variousopen-source projects."

As a special offer, he said Microsoft representatives who bidwould get 10 per cent off the price they offered. "To qualify,you

must provide @microsoft.com e-mail address and must mentiondiscount code LINUXRULZ during checkout," the seller specified.